Summary
Elon Musk is facing resistance from Trump-appointed agency heads who are growing “exhausted” by his haphazard directives.
After backtracking on a 5-point achievement list ultimatum, Musk has issued a new demand for weekly reports. High-level officials are openly defying these orders, with some instructing staff to ignore them.
Agency leaders complain these late-night, weekend demands create confusion, divert resources, and appear designed to “rattle and demoralize workers.”
One staffer described the communications as having “psychological warfare vibes.”
Isn’t this what his employees have been saying about him for years? From what I understand, he comes up with ideas using his super genius big boy brain. He then puts insane deadlines and requirements on his employees (the engineers actually doing the work). Then, he’ll want to alter the design and expect immediate compliance and ridicule them for not being as intelligent as he wants them to be.
He is running Doge like one of his businesses. But it is an entirely different thing, and shockingly moving quickly and breaking things destabilizes a govorning structure. Who knew? /s